Yearly Archives: 2016

Kaspersky Lab has said that a new form of Trojan horse known as Switcher can successfully infiltrate Wi-Fi networks, hijack the traffic to fake DNS servers and expose users to phishing attacks. According to Nikita Buchka, who analyses new types of malware programs at Kaspersky Labs, the group operating the …

A new website dubbed I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent has been set up. The new site secretly collects all the IP addresses of individuals who visit torrenting sites. The website also collates all the data about what individuals do when they visit common torrenting sites in the world. …

The Egyptian government has stepped up its crackdown against what it describes as the careless use of the internet in the country. Only a few weeks ago, the government managed to block Signal, a popular private messaging service. The move by the government to block the messaging service that is …

Russian is ready to sell its innovative anti-hacking technology to India. Speaking recently, the head of Russian Quantum Centre, the body that is in charge of developing the technology, Ruslan Yunusov, said that his agency is willing to work with India on a broad range of security-related projects. He added …

Opera Software has introduced a new feature to its free VPN for Android service, Opera Max. While announcing the new changes, the company said that the new feature, which is based on a clever display of ads on the screen of your phone, offers the ever growing number of Opera …

Signal, the popular messaging service that allows users to communicate using end-to-end encryption methods is set to develop new features to defeat government censorship. Announcing the new plans, the company behind the app, Open Whispers said that it had noted that some states had developed new methods of blocking Signal. …

Authorities in Turkey have tightened their internet censorship practices further with a renewed effort to clamp down on popular social media sites in the country. Fresh reports indicate that the government has been restricting individuals from accessing the likes of Facebook and other social media platforms in the country. It …

The Turkish government has blocked TOR and VPN services in the country. Investigations indicate that the blockade was implemented sometime in mid-December after the government announced that it was taking measures to safeguard national security in the crisis-hit country. As per last week, users could not successfully bypass restrictions using …

An Australian court has ordered all the ISPs operating in the country to take all the necessary measures to block all the sites that are associated with online copyright infringement practices. The Federal Court of Australia ruled that all the sites in Australia that enable individuals to pirate content and …

AT&T is set to provide VPN services to protect NASA’s Deep Space Network. According to sources, NASA has been in talks with the telecommunications giant to help develop custom-made solutions for the vast network of communication equipment that NASA has in several countries. According to Mike Leff, who is the …